I love your blog. My husband often knows that I am reading one of your posts because he hears me laughing from the other room. As a relatively new and unknown blogger I get a thrill when I find out one person has left a comment! Don't know what I'd do with 2.7 million page views! -Jenn

Congratulations ... even if all the little old ladies in the village voted for you more than once :DI have coffee with you every morning and try to check in on you before I go to sleep. I am sure the same sweetness in your blog attracts many other people too .. You are famous .. for your kindness and the pups and the village and the neighbors and your terrible taste in tv shows :)

Looking forward to seeing Mary - there will be a world-wide Aaaah when we see her for the first time ! Maybe even a few tears shed in memory of Meg....200 miles seems a long way to go for a dog, but two years ago we drove a round trip of over 3,000 kilometres to pick up the most gorgeous retired breeding Labrador from a kennel near Geneva. Crazy, I know, and a long, long, way to go, but well worth the expense and effort !

Well done John.....the page views - well, you have us laughing and crying on a daily basis, life is never dull with you around. And going to get Mary - all us readers can hardly wait, so can't imagine how you're doing!

Of course you have that many readers. I look forward to your posts every day. No other blog has given me so much in laughter, tears and thoughtful stories. Thank you. We all wait for Sunday, photos and lots of puppy reports.

Well done, Sir - though it's not quite THAT surprising given the nature and quality of your blog.And I'm still inching my way towards my first 100,000 despite my blog being older than yours (Despite your injunction we've ALL now had a look at our own.) Not that I'm in the least bit jealous, oh no! ;-)

Yeah but I often only come in to make cynical remarks and cutting asides, so I don't think those visits should count on the plus side of the numbers. Don't get too big for your crocs (or slippers of sex) (:))